Numbers 23:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ And the Lord put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ And the Lord put a speech in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak and thus shall you speak.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And Jehovah put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

Common English Bible

⁵ The LORD gave Balaam something to say, and said to him, “Return to Balak and say this.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Then the Lord placed the word in his mouth, and he said: "Return to Balak, and you shall say this."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.

Numbers 23:5 Cross References

Exodus 4:15

And you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.

Proverbs 16:1

The plans of the mind belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

Proverbs 16:9

A man's mind plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.

Isaiah 51:16

And I have put my words in your mouth, and hid you in the shadow of my hand, stretching out the heavens and laying the foundations of the earth, and saying to Zion, ‘You are my people.’ ”

Isaiah 59:21

“And as for me, this is my covenant with them, say the Lord: my spirit which is upon you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your children, or out of the mouth of your children's children, says the Lord, from this time forth and for evermore.”

Jeremiah 1:9

Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth; and the Lord said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

Numbers 22:20

And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise, go with them; but only what I bid you, that shall you do.”

Numbers 22:35

And the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men; but only the word which I bid you, that shall you speak.” So Balaam went on with the princes of Balak.

Numbers 23:16

And the Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.”

Numbers 23:4

And God met Balaam; and Balaam said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered upon each altar a bull and a ram.”

Numbers 23:6

And he returned to him, and lo, he and all the princes of Moab were standing beside his burnt offering.

Luke 12:12

for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”

John 11:51

He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation,

Deuteronomy 18:18

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brethren; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.